IS OWC WDM System Performance Optimization at 40 Gbps bit rate with improved
link distance of 10000 km
Ruchi Sharma
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Government women engineering college
Ajmer, India
ruchisharma399@gmail.com
Abstract—In the advent of increasing demand for high
speed wireless data connection with maximum possible
coverage area, system designed here achieves bit-rate of 40
Gbps with efficient coverage area or link distance of 10000
km with 8 channel WDM. The communication link
preferred here is the intersatellite optical wireless
communication with pre and post amplification of EDFA
black box. The receiving signal is realized by the help of bit
error rate (BER), Quality factor and Eye-opening diagram.
The system proposed is very useful for the next and present
generation High speed Optical Wireless Communication.
Keywords—IS-OWC, WDM, EDFA, BER, Q-factor
INTRODUCTION
Inter-satellite optical wireless communication has attained
recognition in small time due to its infinite advantages as
compared to its RF counterpart. This study includes system
description of Is-OWC system with study of different
parameters which effects system performance along with
applications and advantages of utilizing this technology.
Optical communication systems use high carrier frequencies
(100 THz) in the visible or near-infrared region of the
electromagnetic spectrum. Fiber-optic communication systems
are light wave systems that employ optical fibers for
information transmission. Requirement of a good transmission
medium was one of the most important features in developing
a practical optical communication system. OWC is one of the
most promising current areas of research with momentous
capacities for high-impact results which will significantly
change the wireless market mostly subjugated by the radio-
frequency (RF) technologies.
Is-OWC have certain challenges such as beam divergence, and
receiving and transmitting pointing errors which further limit
transmission distance and capacity. When the transmitter and
the receiver are not aligned, it leads to power reduction at the
receiver side. Beam divergence refers to spreading of beam
during its propagation from transmitter to receiver. These
challenges must be considered by researchers during the design
of inter-satellite communication system.
Several number of researches have been done in the current
trends of OWC, Guddan kumari projected an IS OWC-DWDM
Arvind Sharma
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Government women engineering college
Ajmer, India
arvindsharma@gweca.ac.in
system with high speed data rate of 80 Gbps with link distance,
5000 km. Meenakshi planned a 128x40 Gbps bandwidth
efficient OWC WDM system. Prabhdeep wished-for an IS
OWC system (range: 6,000 km) realizable data rate of 7.63
Gbps.
Taking in consideration above stated pieces of work, we have
proposed an 8 channel WDM system with an Inter satellite
optical wireless communication link with pre-amplification and
post-amplification with the help of EDFA black box. The
system proposed is free from any complex circuitry or too many
components in design. The integration of WDM with Is-OWC
using EDFA black box amplifiers with it gives us high speed
data rates with much greater improved coverage distance or
range where efficient data rates can be received with error free
transmission. EDFA black box is used due to its excellent
properties make it possible to achieve the desired data rates in
long haul wireless optical communication.
OWC WDM SYSTEM DESIGN PARAMETERS
For the error free and efficient working of any system, it is
necessary to study and analyze the different parameters that
come within the process of a system designing.
In this system (Is- OWC WDM), there is a laser beam that
carries the information or message signal is transmitted over
free space media.
Let a laser beam be transmitted in this system with power and
gain as Pt and Gt respectively at given wavelength, λ.
Received power:-
Pr = Pt Gt ηt ηr Gr Lt Lr (λ/4πR)2 (1)
Transmitting and receiving gain :-
Gt =(πDt/λ)2 (2)
Gr =(πDt/λ)2 (3)
Transmitter and receiver pointing error:-
Lt= exp (-GtƟt2) (4)
 Lr = exp (-GtƟt2) (5) Table 1. System parameters table
The efficient result providing values of these system parameters
are considered. Proper care must be taken while choosing the
parameter value of transmitting and receiving antenna aperture s.no System Parameters Value
so that we can get an efficient system. While choosing proper 1 Power 20dbm
transmitting power, pointing error, transceiver efficiency, 2 Samples per bit 64
received power and transmission distance we should be careful
as well as observant to ensure that adequate signal from 3 Sequence length 128 bits
transmitter ranges receiver section with inconsequential error. 4 Channel capacity 8
5 Modulation type NRZ
SYSTEM DESIGN
6 No. of samples 8192
7 Data rate 1- 40 Gbps
8 Transmission distance 10000 km
9 Laser line width 0.1 Mhz
10 Dark current 10 na
11 Responsivity 1 A/W
12 Centre frequency 193.1
13 Amplification factor 20dbm

Table 2. OWC channel parameters table

S. no. Parameters Value

Fig. 1 IS- OWC WDM System
An intersatellite OWC WDM system is embodied in fig 1. It
consists of a transmitter, OWC channel and a receiver. In the 8
channel transmitter section, each transmitter consists of a Laser
source giving an input power of 20 dbm and line width of 0.1
Mhz, a PN Sequence Generator, NRZ pulse generator and
modulation of information signal is done by Mach Zhender
modulator. The 8 channel transmitter is multiplexed with the
help of an ideal 8x1 WDM. The signal to be transmitted is first
boosted or pre-amplified with the help of an EDFA black box
amplifier, the amplified signal is then transmitted in free space
through the optical wireless channel (OWC). The channel
properties are defined in the parameters table below. The signal
before reaching the receiver is post amplified again by the help
of which we get a tremendous increase in the coverage area or
link distance. The received signal is demultiplexed and output
is attained at various 8 receivers. The receiving section consists
of an APD (avalanche photo diode) through avalanche
multiplication process APD gives distinctive current gain. The
system is designed using optisystem 12 and the parameters used
in system design are listed in table given below.
1 Transmitter/receiver antenna aperture 15cm
2 Transmitter/receiver antenna 1
efficiency
3 Transmitter/receiver pointing loss 0.5
4 Additional losses 1db
5 Operating frequency range 1550nm
RESULT
The system proposed here is designed to attain bit rate of 40
Gbps for which the range of transmission range is 10000 km at
the given input power 20db. The performance analysis has been
done on the basis of output signal obtained when employed with
two different configuration of optical EDFA amplifier. Effect
of different parameter variations on system performance has
been shown by the graphical representations below.
A. Transmitter Optical Spectrum
The optical spectrum analyzer obtained by the optical spectrum,
comprises the data to be communicated via the OWC channel.
It is the checkup of the input power levels for changed values
of frequency.

Fig. 2 Optical spectrum of the transmitted signal
B. Bit-rate vs Q-factor
Increase in bit rate, in a system for a fixed distance, will give us
decreased value of gain or Q-factor. As shown in the graph
below. For the bit-rate of 40Gbps we get Q-factor as 7.68 in
this system.
Fig. 3 Graph of Bit-rate vs Q-factor
C. Input power vs Q-factor
By increasing the system’s input power we can obtain improved
gain proportionally. In the graph below increase in input power
at different values of 10dbm, 20dbm, 30dbm, attains improved
Q-factor.
Fig. 4 Graph of input power vs Q-factor
D. Antenna aperture vs Q-factor
The antenna aperture is measured as the area of a circle to
incoming signal as the power density. Antenna gain is directly
proportional to aperture. The larger the aperture, the higher gain
we obtain that can be clearly incurred from the graph below.
The different values of antenna aperture (10cm – 20cm) attains
improved values of Q-factor.
Fig. 5 Graph of Q-factor vs antenna aperture

E. Transmission distance vs Q-factor
Range for the transmission is inversely proportional to the gain
of the system. The graph below shows that as we increase the
transmission range, the Q-factor tends to decrease. For the
range of 2000km we obtain the highest Q-factor above 8.5 and
after that it keeps on decreasing as the range increases.
Fig. 6 Graphical representation of Range vs Q-factor
F. Eye Diagram for the system when EDFA used as
an amplifier
For the performance analysis of a system it is essential to see
the eye diagram representation for the output signal. EDFA
when used for pre- amplification and post amplification in the
proposed system, with the parameters defined in the Table 1 and
2. We get the values for Q-factor as 2.35 and for BER as 0.006
for the coverage area of 10000km. Improvement in the system
performance is acquired by implementing EDFA black box
replacing normal EDFA.
Fig. 7 Eye Diagram (10000 km , 20 dB input power ,Bir-rate = 40 Gbps).
G. Eye Diagram depicting the Quality factor and bit
error-rate for the planned system
The BER and Q-factor along with the Eye Diagram for an Is-
OWC WDM system is shown in the below fig.8. The system
performance is enhanced in Transmission link distance at
minimum input power following NRZ modulation, minimum
antenna aperture of 15 cm and various parameters as mentioned
in Table 1 and 2. For this, we get BER as 5.609 and Q-factor as
7.68 as shown below.
Fig. 8 Eye diagram (10000 km, 20 dB input power and Bir-rate= 40 Gbps).
CONCLUSION
An 8 channel wireless optical inter-satellite WDM system is
designed to achieve its highest capacity and data rate of 40 Gbps
with maximum possible coverage area of 10000 km. After
using EDFA and EDFA black box we came to a conclusion that
EDFA black box can help at a great extent to improve the
system performance specially in the transmission distance and
Q-factor. We can also vary different parameters like amplifier
gain and antenna aperture in order to obtain better results. The
system proposed here can be studied and analyzed further to
improve link distance and Bit-rate by using different
modulation schemes and varying different parameters that the
system contains.
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